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The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google
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- The world is switching to a model where computing power resides with large providers, in “the cloud”, rather than hosted locally. This is similar to what happened with electricity - instead of being generated locally, it is now purchased from the electricity grid.
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Author:
Nicholas Carr
Publication date:
2008-01-07
EAN (ISBN-13):
9780393062281
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